WWE's Biggest Nightmare Is Coming True

If wrestlers can organise and unionise and see through all the changes Cody and Eric Bischoff warned of and Vince McMahon has always sworn off, it really would be WWE's biggest nightmare. But only because they simply couldn't get away with such a hugely unethical practice any longer - not because an empiric institution would face total ruin.

It's time for a change now, but it's been time for decades. This latest furore has only sharpened the focus. Pro wrestlers are workers. We refer to them as this most days in our position as fans that think we know more than we actually do, but they work for Vince McMahon, and Vince McMahon alone.

But they only sign on to do so as independent contractors. Meaning they should be allowed to use the fruits of their labour to make $50 for themselves sending Happy Birthday message to your mate. Only the fruits of their labour were supposedly grown by McMahon, rather than themselves, because they work for him. But that can't be true because they're independent contractors. But they're not independent contractors, because they're f*cking workers, aren't they? It spins your head to think about. What must it be like to live it?

Yet again, WWE exist in the grey to keep their profit and loss sheets in the black. Confusion at ground level keeps the powerful powerful, but never has the alternative looked so clear. And making the company's worst nightmare come true could finally highlight the most unexpected of inconvenient truths - that it really was never a nightmare at all.